Friday, June 08, 2007
Confirmation camp was so rock-the-socks man!HAHAOkay, here it goes:THURDAY, 7 JUNEWe met up at 7.30am at MacDonald's and saw Huxianand Linda having breakfast. She haven't completed herchemistry assignment due that day. LOLMiss TBC was queueing for hotcakes coincidentally.Gareth, Eugene chua, Nicholas Heng, Oliver, Janice,Charmaine and I went to get breakfast before the other Eugene came. Mrs Ganesan and Miss Angelinesaw us and asked us what we were we doing there so late for school already. "Church camp!"After we filled out stomachs, we wanted to go to schoolto spike our schoolmates because we did not haveto sit in for gruelling hours of lessons. (I guess)Instead, Oliver took his pack of cards out and weplayed on the Mac's tray. Someone asked "Later MrAnba walk past see how?!"Eugene replied" Later Anba come and play ar!""Nvm la! We're playing Lord of the Rings wad! (as ofthe cards cover)HAHAWe were supposed to assemble by 8.45 at the CatholicSpirituality Centre. We left at around 9. Opps!Amanda called me and said" WE'RE NOT SAME GROUP AND BUNK LEH!""HUH! CHARMAINE AND JANICE LEH?!"LOLReached there, were damn late but everyone waschecking out/in their dorms and I chose the bedthat was across the couch. Charmaine had hersin the lower bunk of a double-deck beside mine.Janice, was in room 5 but since their room waspacked as of a sardines' can, she came over andtook the upper bunk of char's double-deck.Cool! Imagine fooleratives sleeping together.Went down for ice-breakers in the main room.My group, 6's facils were Susanna and Nathaniel,who came during lunch. My group members:includes Carrie, Charmaine, Henry, Nicholas,Kristopher, Jeremiah, Jonathan and myself.I was always called because Susanna only canremember my name -.- since I know hersince I was back in primary 5. Well, we playedthe "arrange yourself on chairs" game. Anddamn, I couldn't get to the front in time becauseI'm a March-baby and had to do forfeit with 2other guys. Sebby, Mr Australia joined us withour chicken dance. LOL. Looks like China and Downunder's having a truce. yea man.Played the "animal-aminated-action" gamenext, combined with Sebby's group. Guess whatanimal I chose! CRAB! LOLCharmaine was cat and I started a wrong action for hers and she had to live with it for the restof the game. I did the 招财猫 action and howthey laughed! HAHA Charmaine was cursingat me hilariously cause she had to do thatretarded action of the rest of the game. Estellawas a goat and since we couldn't come up withany apt action, cause only sheeps baa (come tothink of it, goats mehhh meh? Oh yea hor! LOL)So I showed them a "milking goat action".Walao, they cracked up and Sebby said," Jelena!Go see a school counsellor la you!" HAHASebastian wanted to sabotage me for forfeitduring the last round. In the end, the girlsformed an alliance and sabo-ed him! He hadto go up to the microphone to say "Ladies andgentlemen, I've got something to say.. I am gay!"LOL. Everyone requested an Encore! LOLWe had praise and worship and stood on the chairs! After that was a session by the groupfrom the church of Our Lady Star of the Sea inYishun. Jamie gave a talk and Father JJ wrappedup before our lunch. Jamie mentioned somethingon the Oprah Winfrey show and I told Amanda"I'm back.... I'm back" on the Hallmark channel.She said." yayaya! LOL"Father JJ really made memiss Father J Bosco even more! LOL They bothcrack audiences up really well. During lunch,Fooleratives shared my plate for lunch. Weborrowed a fork from Amanda. We tookHoneydew sago and were amused by the sagoof different colours. Some had tails also! Talkabout having the lesson on male gametes fresh in your mind from Bio lessons, we said"Hey! I want that! Give me the sperm." LOLWe went for second round of dessert.Amanda and I took our ball of fruit and said"Cheers!" We took a sago sperm next andsaid "Cheers", clicking our spoons. Guess what.My sperm fell onto her spoon. Damn. LOLThe session next was by Adel, which wasvery interesting. How is combined marketingtatics with our Lord. Eugene, a Paul-twohillwannabe shared on his experience. Again,Fr JJ wrapped the session up. We played Treasure hunt next. Gosh, how Carrie, Charand I ran. Bathed and had to go to the mainroom for mass at 6.15pm. Intially, we over-estimated ourselves and commented whenwe saw the toilet cubicles "The shower andtoiletbowl same cubicle, the shower slant towardsthe toiletbowl, we have to stand on top of the bowlto bathe la! Then we can see the heads bobbing outfrom the cubicles while bathing. LOL"In the end, cannot even see and no need to standcause the shower head can be adjusted and wearen't that tall :XAfter mass, was dinner but since we had SDVPmeeting in church opposite at 8pm, we couldn'tjoin them for dinner. I told Nicole to meet usthere since she took her food already. I finallyfound out who Juan is already! Kristopherfrom my group! -.- Kristopher Juan. Well, I toldhim to follow Nicole and be at st Joseph's dyingaid by 8pm. When fooleratives were about torun out of csc to head to 401 for chicken wingsbefore 8 (it was around 7.45 then), Colin came upto us with Doug and said "We got to go now?""eh, yea." THEN ROBOCOP came. Lucy said" Nogoing out. Oh yea, St Vincent De Paul. Okok, quickly go" But the twins took their food alreadyso I asked them to follow Nicole. They didn'tknow who Nicole and Juan were so I had topoint them out to Colin. The funny thing was,after one of the sessions earlier, I had to informthe auxillary members about this meeting soI saw one of the Sim brothers and told him.Jan, Char and I didn't know how to ask him atfirst cause we couldn't figure out whether hewas Colin or Douglas. After I told him aboutthe meeting, he said," Okay, you sms me on thetime to meet later." I said" Okay, eh. So you areColin or Douglas?" I think he wanted to laugh,but said," Oh, Colin. I'm Colin." LOLOLOLOL!!Char and I bought 2 wings, Jan bought a fishburger and 3 of us milo pengs. We chionged to finish in 7 mintues. Twins, Nicole and Juancouldn't come out because CLARA didn't allow.I did the nasi lemak thing. wth, hahaha.We came in at 8.25 and they haven't even startsession proper. -.- Colin were looking out for uswhen we came in. I went over and told him thedetails and all. The session was very meaningful.Lights were off with the light from the powerpointonly. Basins with 3 floating candles were lined at thedoors for the reconciliation and affirmation session,where you bring someone or a group up to reconcile or affirm them and pray. We reflectedon the Love Paragraph by St paul (you can see thepassage once you enter my blog) and Cristalbellepulled me up. She spoke first and I was so touched,I cried a lot, when it was my turn, she cried too.I hugged and kissed her on the cheeks. Then, fooleratives went up. I spoke first. Jan and Charwere crying. haha den we hugged. I went to findWynee and hugged her. I think she knew thatwe were gonna have something out from thatsession to have us reconciled. She just keptcrying when I hugged her. A few moments later,Susanna, with Nicholas behind her said,"Jelena,he wants to say something to you. He's verynervous." So he talked to me and I told himstuff. He smsed me to say thank you. I guessI pulled him out of him being ruminativesomehow. I thank God that the Lord used me to relievesomeone's doubts. I saw fooleratives, Eugenes, Garethand Oliver staring when we were talking. lolThen, Crissy, Annabelle, Wynee and I went up. Wehuddle together and remind ourselves on the funwe've had ever since we knew each other when we're9. "Penguin, cornflakes, funfair, goofing around, sebby, smelly hair, Dance ministry and everything."Then we sang "I could sing of your love forever"It was a real heavy night spiritually and emotionallyfor some of us. And we had to wake up at 4.30am thenext day! -.- Earliest hour I've seen in camps sia.eh eh, you think our bunk will follow the after 12go to bed, honeys order? LOL No way! It's a once in a life-time confirmation camp! It's gotta be bondingand way, way fun! Well, Annabelle, Cristalbelle and Iwent over to Sebby's bunk. (Although guys and girlscan't go over to each other's dorms, they were facils.ahhh! lol)FRIDAY, 8 JUNEWe goofed in there and sang Betina a B'daysong at 12mn. She had bashed by a pillow. lolWent up after that. We played cards and werebeing super mean but hilarious! We imitated CLARApretty loudly. We had plans to go down in the wee hoursof the morning but 2 cathetists, one purple (Aunty Joe)and one green (CLARA) stood guard the main doorby sleeping on the floor in the main hall. Shit, totally.LOL There was this once, Jan, Char, Annab, Crissy and Iwent out and tried to escape. I saw CLARA's eyesflutter open and quickly ask them to run to the toilet.Annabelle crawled behind the couch and went to openthe door. Fruitless attempt because CLARA voice cameon next "where to you think you're going?" Annab couldn't contain her laughter and said," Take drinks"HAHA. She shooed us back to our rooms. So ourbunk: Jasmine Low, Germaine, Betina, Carrie, twins,fooleratives Desiree. How we laughed! Thenwe discussed and made fun of their sleeping positions."How CLARA breathe man?" LOL So, we came up with 3 alternatives.1. from the toilet's gate that will lead to the spiral staircaseand into the 'kitchen' area. (But, locked.)2. from the main door, of course.3. from our own room!We've got a door leading to the corridor from our ownroom must it was really difficult to open. Annabelle andI unlocked it by lifting the barrier but it was stuck.So we need to push the door really hard only. But thenoise will arouse suspicions. LOL But nvm, CLARA willalways knock twice before checking on us. We were theonly room so noisy. Everyone else's lights were off and quiet. Char and Jan managed to unlock the door. Andwhen they did, we squealed and lmao-ed. I caughtthe act on video! Lucky us, I bought my camera. LOLSo, 8 of us sneaked out. Jasmine and Germaine stayedin the room. Annabelle said " If we got caught, say wewent out you never say anything." But she won't knowwhere we got out from! LOLWe went down and played some games like zhong ji mi ma.Self serviced ourselves for milo, biscuits and water."Nvm la. Scold us for what. Then wad's our $35 for?"A group of guys and Clement, an assistant cathetist werethere too. Then, Carrie, Betine & Desiree went up.5 of us went to the adoration room. It was so beautiful.We went up eventually too. We had footsteps and each ofus hid behind a pillar. To find out it was water splatteringonto the roof. -.- We called our escape PRISONBREAKLOL Prison break 3 man.got in by the secret door and charmaine, janice and I sharedONE bed (lower bunk of double decker), twins sharedmy bed, Jasmine and Germaine shared one bed, the other3 girls shared 2 beds. Whoa, our room sharer sia.Jan and I slept for 45 min from 3.45 to 4.30am. We kept laughing and shook the bed because of our laughter.Poor charmaine, who wanted very much to sleep. hahahaWoke up at 4.30am, went punggol park at 5.10am, andimagine more than 100 people there sitting at the fitnessarea listening to calm music and appreciating natureas Jamie read Genesis. Well, a lot of people hung theirheads and put their hands together in prayer. Supposedly! So many people were sleeping!Daryl Bong had his mouth open a little also! LOLI've more than 6 mosquito bites. I was rubbingmy legs the whole time. Went back at aaround 6.30amfor breakfast. They gave us till 9 till the next sessionstarts. Charmaine crashed the bed while Jan and Ibathed then went for breakfast though we didn't wantto intially bit I heard there wad prata! woo!Guess what I ate. I GG after the second one but Icontinued. LOLI ate THREE prata, 2 spoonfuls of beehoon, 3/4mini hashbrown PLUS the sides of french toast.OMG hahahaha. Well, we ate 2 chicken wingsfor dinner last night remember? LOLI rolled the prata up like crepe with the curryinside and chomped it. lolWe had a session by Jamie and then lunch!I still ate you know. LOLWe crashed at the guy' bench and then Oliverand I were playing the 成语 game alphabeticallybecause he didn't agree that my chinese was betterthan his.Oliver asked what's bitch in chinese.Gareth and Janice said "母狗" Then oliverrepeated after them, "eh, 木狗"Then, we took our almond cocktail.I kope Oliver's longan but to OUR dismay, thelongan fell on the table. lolOliver said when i came back," you ask my motherto scoop for you right?""NO, your mom scoop for me she asked me whetherI wanted more longan or almond!!!"And then fr fred and his team had a session.Parents were there and then therewas praying over. We went for pentential serviceand read the letter written by our parents.I cried already when I read the first line! LOLI told Oliver," You've got a beautiful mother(Aunty Sharon)" He read till the second page,he wiped his face on his sleeve. Cry liao. "Are you okay?" haha.Then we sang this song while tears keptstreaming down your face. The marvels of the Lord.Then is was sharing. Arnold got called by Fr Fred.Then he had to call another person of the opps sex.Nicole Samuel. Then she called Jeremiah. ThenJeremiah pointed at me and said,"my group one la.I don't know her name" LOL Fr Fred say," Jelena la.Okay, Jelena come up." haha. I can't imagine I criedwhile sharing. Well, if you were looked at by tens ofparents and hundred over people, yea.. lolI said," Last night..." The the PRISONBREAKerslaughed so loudly. I said laughed too and said," no, nonot that one. Not prison break"Then I called oliver, He cried at the end at his sharingand he zao sia-ed. Charmaine was called by him andshe cried too. LOL then fr Fred called Aloysius andAloy said "I'm not gonna cry.." LOLAfter break camp, we took pictures and foolerativesheaded to 401 for wings and milo again. Jan leftand Amanda(s) were there. haha. Yep, that'smy wonderful, beautiful, FULL of life and loveconfirmation camp! What a pity it's only 2D1Nwhen we were just about to get to know people,break camp le. haha. This is my longestest post btw!Here are the pictures!
Mac tray gambling!

In the room gambling!
Twins and I
PRISON BREAK
actresses (:
Our loot.
Coke with biscuits.
$35!!
Fooleratives on
char's bed.
See how we slept?
Jan, Jel, Char
with our name tags
PRISON BREAKERS
again! Through our
prison breakthrough!
The FOURsome.
Wynee, Annabelle,
Jelena, Cristalbelle
Jelena and Cousin cousin,
AMANDA! lol
HIHS
The lord will be withus, rekindling thespirit during confirmation
Granted at 6:42 PM
The Water Underneath
Tomorrow is not a promise; but a chance.
Psalm 105:4-5 (NIV)
"Look To The Lord And His Strength;
Seek His Face Always.
Remember The Wonders He Has Done."
1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV)
"The Lord does not look at the things man looks at.
Man looks at the outward apperance, but the Lord looks
at the heart."
1 Corinthians 15:19 (NIV)
"If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are
to be pitied more than all men."
1 Corinthians 13:4-7,13
"Love is patient and kind;
it is not jealous or conceited or proud;
love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritatable;
love does not keep a record of wrongs
love is not happy with evil,
but is happy with the truth.
Love never gives up;
and its faith, hope and patience never fail."
"Meanwhile these three remain:
faith, hope and love;
and the greatest of these is love."